[Nouveau] Self introduction Hans de Goede

Martin Peres martin.peres at free.fr
Tue May 26 00:41:12 PDT 2015


On 26/05/15 10:29, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Since I will be working on nouveau pretty much starting today I thought
> it would be good to write a quick self introduction.
>
> I'm an FOSS enthusiast / developer since 1996. I've written (and still
> maintain) various hwmon drivers, various USB webcam drivers, libv4l and
> libgphoto camlibs for photoframes which use a custom usb protocol and
> usb redirection over the network for qemu.
>
> And although not the original author I'm now a days a maintainer of
> libusb, usb-3 bulk streams support in the xhci driver, the uas driver,
> and libahci_platform.
>
> In my spare time I work on u-boot and Linux support for Allwinner ARM
> SoCs, I'm a u-boot maintainer for these, and maintain the sata, mmc
> and usb kernel drivers.
>
> About a year ago I joined the Red Hat graphics team, where my first
> task was to help to get libinput up to a level where it could be
> used as the input stack for Wayland. The work on this is winding
> down, so my next project is to help out with nouveau and here I am.
>
> My knowledge of GPU-s and basically anything 3d is quite limited
> atm, so I will likely be asking a lot of questions to get up to
> speed. I'll also join the #nouveau channel on irc, so I'll see
> you all there.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans

Hey Hans.

That's very good news! Welcome to the project!

Do you know if you are going to help mostly on the kernel or mesa side?

Martin


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